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April 30, 2013, 3:50 PM

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Bloomberg:
BlackBerry CEO Questions Future of Tablets  —  BlackBerry Focused on ‘Crazy Multi-Taskers’: Heins  —  BlackBerry (BBRY) Chief Executive Officer Thorsten Heins said he sees a limited future for tablet computers, an indication he may shelve plans to build a follow- up to the smartphone maker's ill-fated PlayBook device.
Ravi Narasimhan / Twitter Advertising:
Twitter Ads now generally available for U.S. users  —  When we built our self-service ad platform last March, our goal was to create an experience that would be powerful and also extremely easy for anybody to use.  Whether you're an individual looking to grow your personal brand …
CERN:
The World Wide Web project  —  The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.  Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary …
Adam Ewing / Bloomberg:
Nokia Invests in High-Resolution Cameras to Woo Apple Customers  —  Nokia Growth Partners, the venture- capital arm of Nokia (NOK1V) Oyj, plans to invest in California startup Pelican Imaging as the phonemaker seeks to win back customers from Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Android devices with cameras …
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Jawbone Acquires BodyMedia for More Than $100 Million, as Wearable Tech Gets More Intense  —  Looking to gain even more traction in the wearable health and fitness market, Jawbone is snapping up another health product company.  —  The Bay Area-based private company has acquired BodyMedia …
John Cook / GeekWire:
Cheezburger cuts 35% of staff as it looks to make transition from desktop to mobile  —  Cheezburger today announced that it is cutting 24 employees, or about 35 percent of its staff, as it struggles with the changing economics of more people viewing content on mobile devices.
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NBC Bay Area:
After Work-From-Home Ban, Yahoo Expands Maternity Leave  —  Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who sparked an uproar and hurt her image as a working mom when she banned telecommuting two months ago, is now offering employees generous new family leave benefits.  —  Under the new policy …
Robert Gedarovich / Skype Blogs:
Skype Video Messaging: Preview for Windows Desktop Users  —  Today we've released the preview of Skype Video Messaging for Skype for Windows desktop on Windows 7 or above.  This feature will also be made available shortly for Skype for Windows 8.  Skype Video Messaging lets you record …
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Warns Journalists: “We Believe That These Attacks Will Continue”  —  “Please help us keep your accounts secure,” the urgent memo says.  —  In a memo sent to news organizations, Twitter warns that it expects high profile account hijackings — like the one that took down the AP's Twitter account last week — to continue.
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple prevailed over Samsung on post-trial procedures: limited retrial in November  —  Based on current schedules, there will be two Apple v. Samsung trials in the Northern District of Calfornia over the next 12 months: a smaller one in November and another big one starting in March.
TechCrunch:
Announcing The CrunchBase Venture Network  —  We knew CrunchBase was big.  We knew because there are 2 million people using the startup database each month.  We knew because more than 120k people have contributed 1.6MM data points on companies, entrepreneurs, fundings, exits and more.
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
ClickTale raises $17m to take its advanced Web analytics software to the masses  —  ClickTale, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of deep website analytics software, has secured $17 million in Series B funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, Goldrock Capital and Viola Credit.
Nick Summers / The Next Web:
Twitter updates Vine for iOS so you can shoot with the front-facing camera and mention users in posts  —  Twitter has updated its short-form video sharing app Vine to support recording with the iPhone's front-facing camera, as well as the ability to mention other users either in captions or comments throughout the service.
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Nielsen Gets Digital to Track Online TV Viewers  —  Nielsen is expected to announce Tuesday that it is testing a tool to measure online viewing of TV shows, the latest step in the company's efforts to improve how it tracks digital audiences.  —  Broadcast and cable networks, including NBC …
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Testing Out Its Official Google Glass App In The Wild  —  It's only a matter of time before Twitter releases its own Google Glass app, as Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr dropped the hint that the company was looking into building one during this month's Glass Collective announcement.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google Announces App Activities Coming To Search, Showing You Information Based On Usage By Other Google+ Users  —  Google's No. 1 strength is its search product, so it makes sense that all of their products feed back into it somehow.  Today, the company announced the introduction of “App Activities” into Search.

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